Saw an interesting post by bitcoinpierre (npub1hxw…40pf) about the caldera at Yellowstone, also known as the next SuperVolcano:
https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1776980280395387260
Basically, these things pop every 600K years, and this one is overdue and already indicating serious seismic activity. When they do blow, it’s catastrophic for mammals within a 5K mile radius because the ash covers the sky for years, crops don’t grow, etc.
Global cooling in an instant.
But it could be 20 years from now or 1,000, we don’t know, and if it’s the latter the only real fix is to tap that massive pool of energy for use. No one’s going to undertake an engineering project at that scale without big incentives, but it does make sense for miners to tap the surface energy to mine, and then incrementally increase the amount they tap until they’re making so much BTC from mining they siphon over larger and larger amounts and innovate more and more to do so.
Got me thinking BTC is the only way to a Type-2 civilization, and harnessing the caldera is a first step to become fully Type-1.
Chris Liss
npub1dt…4hgu0
2024-04-08 10:50:58
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